Public Safety Canada

Cape Breton RCMP have charged an 18-year-old Inverness man making online death threats against students and staff of the Inverness Education Centre-Academy.
Police say officers received word of the threats posted on a social media site on Tuesday...

MILLBROOK — A woman reported missing on Wednesday has been found.
RCMP say Chrisma Ann Joy Denny, 25, was successfully located in the province Wednesday afternoon.
Police put out a missing person’s request at about 12:45 p.m. after Denny was last...

RCMP have no new information on the investigation of a crash that claimed the lives of three people outside Port Hawkesbury Tuesday, spokesman Const. Mark Skinner said this morning.
He said police re-opened the roadway at 11:50 p.m. Tuesday.
The...

Inverness County District RCMP are warning residents about a telephone scam in which callers pose as a police officer and Canada Revenue Agency official.
According to police, the calls are made in succession, with the first fraudster claiming to be...

It was a chance encounter in Sydney, and Cotter Oliver felt uncomfortable putting Sidney Crosby on the spot.
The Reserve Mines resident spotted the NHL star while out for dinner at the Cambridge Suites Hotel in July. Crosby was headed for a...Read More

RCMP in Kings County are looking for help locating an intellectually challenged Waterville man who was due to be released from the facility.
Landon Webb, 25, has lived at the Kings Regional Rehabilitation Centre in Waterville for two years. He has...Read More

SYDNEY — A Cape Breton Regional Police officer arrested in connection with an identity fraud investigation was awoken by an RCMP team while he and his family slept in their beds, his union says.
Joan Jessome, president of the Nova Scotia Government...Read More

A Cape Breton Regional Police officer is facing a charge of identity fraud less than three months after police admitted that leaked emails were sent to reporters.
An RCMP news release sent out Thursday confirmed the arrest of the 39-year-old man...Read More

An RCMP officer from Richmond County who was charged with mischief and uttering threats earlier this month has also been committed to stand trial in Newfoundland over perjury and obstruction of justice charges stemming from a 2011 incident in...Read More

Dawn Beaton had just finished entertaining a throng of Chase the Ace disciples on Saturday when she peered out the Inverness legion window and spotted an RCMP officer carrying a machine-gun.
“It’s the first time I’ve ever seen a...Read More

Inverness RCMP issued a warning Friday, saying motorists can expect slow driving conditions on the Cabot Trail, Highway 105 and Route 19 on Saturday due to the Branch 132 Royal Canadian Legion’s Chase the Ace event.
They will also strictly...Read More

RCMP in Cape Breton have charged one of their own with uttering threats and mischief while off duty.
In a news release Friday, RCMP said Const. Shawn Donald James Greene of the St. Peter’s detachment in Richmond County was arrested without...Read More

Searchers looking for evidence on a farm in Lower Truro have found several items they believe may be connected to the murder of Dalhousie University student Taylor Samson.
Police won’t comment on the nature of the items or how they may be...Read More

One person is dead after a shooting in Enfield on Wednesday afternoon.
RCMP spokesman Cpl. Greg Church said officers responded to a weapons call around 1:50 p.m. at a Stage Road residence.
“Upon arrival, emergency responders and police found a...Read More

PORT HASTINGS — Mounties have charged a 27-year-old Port Hood man they say left the scene of a hit-and-run collision last Wednesday.
RCMP were called to the report of a crash at about 9 p.m., involving a 65-year-old man who was struck as he was...Read More

An Eskasoni man faces a second-degree murder charge in connection to the killing of a reserve man there early Saturday morning.
Albert Michael Bernard, 36, is currently in custody and will appear in Sydney provincial court Monday morning.
At 1:...Read More

Judd Lafford stood among the crowd at Eskasoni’s Douglas Beach on Sunday afternoon, still hopeful his cousin Douglas Young would be discovered alive.
“I just hope they find him pretty soon,” said Lafford. “That’s all...Read More